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title: For instance, why a piece of iron which is rubbed on a cylinder, sho… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: For instance, why a piece of iron which is rubbed on a cylinder, should become magnetic. Who acts: piece. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 21

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For instance, why a piece of iron which is rubbed on a cylinder, should become magnetic.

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**Who acts:** piece · **What happens:** rub, become · **To what, where:** iron, cylinder

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:152:21
# text = For instance, why a piece of iron which is rubbed on a cylinder, should become magnetic.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cylinder	cylinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | present · passive |  | iron |  | a cylinder |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on cylinder=Destination |
| 2 | **become** | should | a piece of iron |  |  |  |  | for instance; magnetic *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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